Tree or mallee to 6 m. Bark rough, fibrous or flaky, dark grey on lower trunk, then smooth, bronze or grey above, rarely smooth throughout. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate or ovate, dull, grey-green. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 5–9 cm long, 0.7–1.5 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins faint, at 20°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 7–12 mm long. Peduncle slender, quadrangular, 6–14 mm long; pedicels terete, 2–8 mm long. Buds oblong, ovoid, pyriform or clavate; operculum shallowly conical or hemispherical, apiculate, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical to suburceolate, 2–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits ovoid to suburceolate, 4–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; valves usually 4.
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